Mr. Bruce A. Busler- Director

Mr. Bruce A. Busler, a member of the Senior Executive Service, is dual-hatted as the Director of the USTRANSCOM Joint Distribution Process Analysis Center (JDPAC) and Executive Director of the SDDC Transportation Engineering Agency (TEA). He also serves as the Special Assistant for Transportation Engineering to implement DOD policy guidance for highway, railroad, and port for national defense programs.

In his role as the Director, JDPAC, Mr. Busler develops a strategy to analytically support the broad needs of the Distribution Process Owner (DPO), USTRANSCOM directorates, Combatant Commands and the Services. He directs a joint team of analysts, engineers, transportation specialists, and computer scientists that includes Air Mobility Command Directorate of Analyses, Assessments and Lessons Learned (A9) as well as SDDCTEA to provide assessments of future transportation capabilities, joint analysis to inform mobility programmatic decisions, and analytically driven deployment and distribution courses of action to move and sustain the joint force.

As the TEA Executive Director, Mr. Busler manages that portion of the Department of Defense (DoD) Engineering for Transportability Program assigned to the Secretary of the Army and acts for the Commanding General, SDDC, as the Army Transportability Agent. Mr. Busler serves as the senior advisor to the Commander, USTRANSCOM and Commanding General, SDDC, as well as the Army and Defense Secretariats, for transportation engineering matters including transportation engineering policies, long-range plans, programs, and DoD transportation engineering issues.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Busler was employed as a senior defense contractor providing support to USTRANSCOM J5/4, where he developed numerous concepts addressing deployment and distribution operations for USTRANSCOM and the DoD. Mr. Busler retired from the USAF in 2005 as a colonel and command pilot with over 3,800 flight hours in mobility and trainer aircraft to include the C-5, C-141, C-9, C-21, T-1 and T-37. He served as the commander or vice commander at the squadron, group, wing and expeditionary mobility task force levels and deployed as the Deputy Director of Mobility Forces and as the Deputy Director of the CENTCOM Deployment Distribution Operations Center for operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Horn of Africa. Mr. Busler was also the USTRANSCOM J3 Mobility Control Center chief of operations where he managed several contingency response efforts to include mobility support for combat operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. He was a systems engineer in the C-17 program from critical design review up to first flight and later served as the Air Mobility Command operational test & evaluation manager for the C-17 during the height of the flight test program.

Mr. Busler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics from the USAF Academy, a master of science degree in Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He is a certified Project Management Professional and a DoD certified acquisition professional. His decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (1 oak leaf cluster) and Meritorious Service Medal (six oak leaf clusters). During his USAF career, he was recognized in 1998 by the Secretary of Defense for Excellence in Leadership and was selected as the Air Education and Training Command Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award winner in 1997.